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FRIDAY, MAY s, 1887.
Official Paper Of Griggs County

SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
ono copy, one yesr, saoo
Cash Invariably in Advance.
ADvxar1sIxa RATEs.-Display ads 81 per inch |
month; Is per cent OF on yearly contracts Of ov-
- incnes. Locals 10 csntsfor hrsr and cents for
eask sp1 aeaqent insertion. Finalsproof and con-
: 1T noE1es, lapot cash
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The Cooperstown train leaves for sanborn at
$50 q. m; arrives II 10 M, connecting with the
Jamestown Accommodation, west. Train leaves
Sanborn for Cooperstown 4:30 p. m. Pacific Ex-
pressl leaves Sanborn for Bismarck 7:02 o. m. Ex-
press trains leaves Sanborn for Fargo 1910 p. M.
and 4.25 p. m. Fargo Accommodation leaves
Sanborn $50 a. m.
AROUND TOWN.
Wheat 81 cents.
Geo. W. Greenleese will visit Csoperstowa in
June.
G. +. Whidden is fencing in his lots on the
boulevard.
Beecher Cox spent Sunday with his Grisga
county friends.
Messrs Gillespie and Blow are out on tho Mani
toba extension.
Ben Mccormick writes friends that he Is tired
OF Ohio, and will return to Dakota.
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Miss frankie Barnard commenced term OF
schsol in the southerlaud district, Monday.
Mrs A. Thomas presented her husband with a !.
nae boy, Friday. II other and child are dong well.
Moffat, the Decring collector. was in town Tues
day, making arrangements for the sale Of the ma
chine at this point.
Gee. A. Luce, of Hope, was over, Tuesday, to
exercise the bay team, ana look over the deld for
machine business.
JIM. Burrell came up to look over his elevator
Saturday evening, and returned to sanborn with
Mrs. B., Monday,
Register Evans of Valley City drove up with F.
H. Adams, from Dazey, Sunday. and returned
Tuesday, driving Jo b.
&c. Ward has his soda fountain running in
q full blast. Ward says he intends to keep er up
In metropolitan style.
At Sterling, on the Northern Pacific, Sunday,
the passenger train was deraled, and one life was
lost while many we're injured.
Dissolve two drachms Of sulphate OF strychnine
In one half ounce of citric acid and gallon of
water. Soak when in this solution for twenty
four hours and then scatter near the gopher hales
On the side of the road and elsewhere.
lis alleged that the churches are at logger
heads, and at war; over the liquor business. 1t
would be sad commentary on Christianity if the
statement was trus-but-it is-we think-not
true. Men may differ without being at war.
In reply to correspondent who is about to
come TO Dakota, we must inform him that the
weather is all right-and plenty of it, except that
it is extremely dry-il fact We heard it stated
yesterday that there was not drop to drink ia
Cooperstown.
Our alleged contemporary says that We were alb
sent atthe Newell examination. Yes, but we ac-
knowledged the invitation through the COURIER;
and il the subpoena of the prosecution had not
been so fatally defective and incompetent we
would have been on hand.
Judge MacLaren, wife and baby arrived from
the south, Monday night. Mac reports pleasant
winter. During the winter he visited different por-
tons OF the southern country, and found Berming
ham, Ala. the liveliest point south of st. Louis.
It has now population of 60,0O0.
R.C Brophy was on the street with his fine colt
and new carriage, Tuesday. By the way, tits ru-
mored that Messrs Brophy and Miohass will open
machinery depot in few days. They are both
good salesmen Of wide acquaintance, and will un-
doubtedly do we'll If they go into the business.
Rev. G. L. Westberg has gone to Ashland, Wis.
Rev. J. Abrahamson takes his place. Mrs. West
berg will visit her parents in Mayvle, fer several
weeks, and then join her husband at Ashland.
Mr.. Westberg has been IN active and conscien-
tious minister and;hi retirement from this field
is regretted by alargs circle Of friends.
C.H. Frost came to town Sunday 70 20 to st.
Louis on visit. When the fire occurred the trip
was postponed. The property destroyed
ID valued by him at about $500, and was insured
In the farmers mutual for $3.50. It 10 the hrg losa
Of the company. One binder. . sseder, sulky
plow, hay rake, enltivator and hay rack were do
stroysd.
M. Olson, ]. N. Burrill and G. A. Van Wor-
mer, Of Sanborn; J. G. Evans, Of Valley City, and
F.H. Adams, Of Cooper stown. went fishing q
Lake Ensign, Saturday, in company with Cspt